Keynote Systems And OPNET Technologies Announce Strategic Application Performance Management (APM) Alliance

Keynote® Systems (NASDAQ: KEYN), the global leader in solutions for continuously improving the Internet and mobile experience, and OPNET Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: OPNT), a leading provider of solutions for managing application and network performance, today announced a strategic alliance that focuses on maximizing the performance and availability of web applications for corporate enterprises and government agencies worldwide. Key initiatives of the alliance include technical collaboration and coordinated marketing and sales efforts that emphasize each company’s best-in-class technologies. The OPNET/Keynote offering enables proactive, 24x7 visibility into the performance of critical applications from multiple geographic locations using a combination of real user traffic and synthetic transaction monitoring.

OPNET’s senior vice president of business development and global channels, Todd Kaloudis, stated, “By combining the industry’s most advanced technologies from Keynote and OPNET, IT teams can now respond to performance issues with unprecedented speed, and in many cases, before they reach a critical state. We believe this alliance is timely because our economy depends on highly responsive web applications more than ever before. Businesses can’t afford to let their online assets get paralyzed.”

Keynote contributes synthetic transaction monitoring, alarms, and user experience monitoring from more than 2,500 locations outside the enterprise network, using the most popular browsers and mobile devices. OPNET contributes real end user experience monitoring from within the enterprise network enabled by deep packet inspection, and tracing capabilities at the code level, enabled by low-overhead monitoring of thousands of metrics across all application tiers. OPNET’s APM technology can distinguish between Keynote-generated synthetic traffic and real user traffic reaching production systems.

By deploying Keynote and OPNET APM solutions, customers can:

• Generate and test application use cases 24/7 to proactively identify and resolve application and network issues before real users are impacted;
• Provide a real time dashboard for tracking Keynote-generated transactions alongside real user transactions within OPNET ACE Live;
• Deliver business-critical application performance metrics, including availability per application or user location, response time per page, intra-server latency, application turns, and database bottlenecks;
• Rapidly pinpoint performance problems in production, wherever they may be, including: connectivity problems related to the Internet or the corporate network, poorly performing Java or .NET tiers, inefficient database queries, problematic application code, and insufficient capacity on the network or systems.

“Keynote provides real browser diagnostics and the ability to monitor Web applications and sites 24/7, regardless of when users are online, allowing for the most accurate possible view into the performance of mission-critical e-business applications,” said Vik Chaudhary, vice president of product management and corporate development at Keynote. “With the addition of OPNET’s detailed analytics and drilldown capabilities, our combined offering will provide new and existing customers with an even more powerful APM solution for faster identification, tracking and resolution of potentially damaging performance issues. This is a powerful APM solution that brings together two leading technology providers focused on the same goal of helping our customers to maximize performance.”

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